Ewwwwww

On Monday I was doing a sales demo at a computer company. Everyone there was under 40 and beautiful; they had the energy of a start up and acted a little cocky. Their sales are growing leaps and bounds and they seem to have a great business model. I understand their business model extremely well because they buy and sell servers and when I started in Corporate America I also bought and sold configured computer systems, although my business centered on cash registers and point of sale systems. They want a way to sell things so that people can consume their stuff and they can report what they sell easier. That's why I was there; I sat in front of a computer for 7 hours explaining why the software I implement would be better than anyone else's software system. They asked good questions, they looked for specific things that were important to their business. Did I mention they were all beautiful?

To be honest, after about 30 minutes of being there I was a little intimidated by them.

And then I sat down in front of the computer I was going to do the demonstration on and I went to plug the power cord into the power strip located under the big corporate table we were seated around and I saw someone's toenail clippings on the floor under the under table. I pretty much spent the rest of the meeting trying to figure who in their right mind would

One: clip their toenails in the company's board room

Two: leave the toenails on the floor of the company's boardroom

I was also wondering if this was some type of Fight Club subversion, a disgruntled employee's passive aggressive attack on the management or if they had been there a while and the cleaning people didn't bother to vacuum under the table.